A question for the Americans

[gordonzola]

What cheese did you buy for Thanksgiving or No Thanks to Genocide Day celebrations/commemorations?

Comments

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

you know,I don't know them, but Hendrickson Dairy make some awesome cheeses. They're somwhere in PA.

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

wow. almost no one* buys that at thanksgiving. loaf mozz yes, but not fresh. Good job bucking tradition!

*"no one" meaning that sales don't increase much, we still sell our regular amount.

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

haha. vegan pies: a scourge on this great nation.

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

haha. just wondering.

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

Me neither. but let me know if you do.

I loved the Sioux Falls co-op though.

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

ok, let's talk. call me.

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

haha. no guilt here. I try to make my journal guilt-free.

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

I don't know what to say.

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

nice!!!!

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

great selection. and good for you for buying L'edel de Cleron. It drives me nuts when people turn their noses up at that cheese because they want some other faux-vacherin that is also pasteurized but has Vacherin in the name.

[violentbloom.livejournal.com]

Well I'm on so many antibiotics that none of those pansy assed cheese bacteria even have a fighting chance!

Probably some pork eater at a restaurant picked his ass then made my food.
I will make sure to stop licking my cats ass though.

[culturalvacuum.livejournal.com]

I doubt you would, they're small time enough that they're just supplying farmers' markets and restaurants directly, and haven't even gone so far as to come up with names or packaging for their cheese. In addition to his core offering of soft goat cheeses, he's made gouda-style and mozzarella from goat's milk, goat logs, and an ash-covered goat cheese, and an occasional hard cow's milk cheese. His sorbets, pierogies and tarts are great, and I took one of his dark chocolate-raspberry goat cheese cheesecake's home with me for Thanksgiving dessert this year. The operation is two or three people at most, though, so I doubt they'll be shipping to Cali any time soon.

It's always fun to buy products from the people who actually made them or grew them, though ... I've gotten to the point where I do 75-90% of my shopping at the farmers market during the height of the season.

[lastwater.livejournal.com]

No, we bought no cheese. Thanksgiving is a non-cheese eating holiday. No cheese is bought for Thanksgiving.

[frandroid.livejournal.com]

VG is another processed cheese, so it's a quintessentially american product, even though I associate veganism with britain more than the US. :]

Her site is inexact in two ways though:

1) It does not really melt. Not in the way that I understand cheese to melt. It kinda wilts an becomes wet. Weird. But that's better than straight-out drying.

2) VG is available in Toronto as well as Western Canada. It's recently disappeared from my natural foods store though, so I'm currently investigating this disappearance.

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

well this is a very American post so it's appropriate.

1. duh.

2. yeah, I dunno. It's our best selling non-cheese "cheese" and that's mostly through customer word of mouth. Angel hooked up with a much bigger company (Follow Your Heart who make that Veganaise and other stuff) and volume hasn't been an issue for a couple of years

[jillbertini.livejournal.com]

We like Vegan Gourmet "cheese." Although I agree with the other person about how it doesn't really melt. But it doesn't scare me like Tofutti, either.

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

Tofutti is scary. I carry the non-hydrogenated "cream cheese" but nothing else. Though they promise it's changing soon, the sliced "cheese" is

1. not organic (rep: "well it is, but we just can't say that on the label." uh huh)
2. hydrogenated
3. has preservatives

[jillbertini.livejournal.com]

I think it's really plastic. :P

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

well yeah. it's basically processed cheese made with no dairy. The government definition for processed cheese food is this: (my bold)

(a)(1) A pasteurized process cheese food is the food prepared by
comminuting and mixing, with the aid of heat, one or more of the
optional cheese ingredients prescribed in paragraph (c) of this section,
with one or more of the optional dairy ingredients prescribed in
paragraph (d) of this section, into a homogeneous plastic mass.

[jillbertini.livejournal.com]

What I love best? The "optional" part. Geeze. Okay, I'm not buying the Tofutti "cheese" slices anymore.

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

oh, don't get me wrong. that's the same for all fake cheese including the "Vegan Gourmet". And I reference the government definiton as an example of plastic food, the definition of fake cheese is non defined by government.

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

hahaha

[jillbertini.livejournal.com]

Perhaps I should resign myself to sprinkling nutritional yeast on foodstuffs and be done with all things fake. Actually, it's my gf who's the vegan.

[freshwater-pr0n.livejournal.com]

No, too lazy. I bought it from the Indian grocer's.

[tuliphead.livejournal.com]

It's grassy and sweet, lots of the traditional gouda caramel, but less sharp, mellowed by the grassyness. I like goudas and I like sheep cheeses, so it's a good combination for me.